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Volume 194 Issue 1

3 January 2011

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 2 Free

Politically correct medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 9 Free

Editorials

In defence of calcium

B E Christopher Nordin

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 3-4

Lessons from the 4-hour standard in England for Australia

Peter A Cameron and Matthew W Cooke

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 4-5

Conference report

Action to improve awareness, participation, care and support for people with epilepsy

Beverley M Essue, Stephen Jan, Maree L Hackett, Andrew F Bleasel, Carol A Ireland, Samuel F Berkovic and Craig S Anderson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 7-9

Research

The projected impact of population and high-risk strategies for risk-factor control on coronary heart disease and stroke events

Erkki A Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Benjamin Philpot, Edward D Janus, Nathalie Davis-Lameloise and James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 10-15 Free

Syncope and seizures following human papillomavirus vaccination: a retrospective case series

Nigel W Crawford, Hazel J Clothier, Sonja Elia, Teresa Lazzaro, Jenny Royle and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 16-18 Free

Cross-reacting antibodies against the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus in older Australians

Robert Booy, Gulam Khandaker, Leon G Heron, Jiehui Yin, Bridget Doyle, Katherine K Tudo, Linda Hueston, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, C Raina MacIntyre and Dominic E Dwyer

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 19-23 Free

The prevalence and diagnosis rates of Klinefelter syndrome: an Australian comparison

Amy S Herlihy, Jane L Halliday, Megan L Cock and Robert I McLachlan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 24-28 Free

Australian doctors’ satisfaction with their work: results from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors

Catherine M Joyce, Stefanie Schurer, Anthony Scott, John Humphreys and Guyonne Kalb

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 30-33 Free

For debate

Medical merchants: conflict of interest, office product sales and notifiable conduct

Malcolm H Parker, Jon L Wardle, Michael Weir and Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 34-37 Free

Viewpoint

Public health and health reform in Australia

C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 38-40 Free

Notable cases

First probable Australian cases of human infection with Rickettsia felis (cat-flea typhus)

Molly Williams, Leonard Izzard, Stephen R Graves, John Stenos and Julian J Kelly

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 41-43 Free

Lessons from practice

An elusive phaeochromocytoma

Christopher J Yates, Sybil A McAuley, Simon Grodski, Peter Shane Hamblin and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 44-45 Free

Letters

Legal aspects of open disclosure II: attitudes of health professionals — findings from a national survey

Julian L Rait and Elizabeth H Van Ekert

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 48

Mandatory performance reporting as part of health care reform: but where are the clinical data?

Peter L Field

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 48

Bicycle helmets and accidental asphyxia in childhood

Roger W Byard, Allan Cala, Donald Ritchey and Noel Woodford

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 49

Inferior vena cava filters in trauma patients: who is responsible for their removal?

Lachlan M Batty, Jim Koukounaras and Stuart M Lyon

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 49

Neuropsychological problems and alcohol availability appear to be key factors in continued heavy alcohol use by Aboriginal Australians

Kylie M Dingwall, Paul Maruff and Sheree Cairney

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 50-51 Free

Impact of adverse news media on prescriptions for osteoporosis: effect on fractures and mortality

Paul J Sambrook, B E Christopher Nordin and Alastair N Goss

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 51-52

Impact of adverse news media on prescriptions for osteoporosis: effect on fractures and mortality

Philip N Sambrook, Jiang S Chen, Judy M Simpson and Lyn M March

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 51-52

Expiry of patent protection on statins: effects on pharmaceutical expenditure in Australia

Steven R A Simoens

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 52-54

Expiry of patent protection on statins: effects on pharmaceutical expenditure in Australia

Philip M Clarke and Edmund M Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 52-54

Managing residual risk in patients receiving statin therapy

Marilyn K Mann

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 54

Managing residual risk in patients receiving statin therapy

Brett H Forge

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 54

Managing residual risk in patients receiving statin therapy

Ian R Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 54

Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: screening needed to prevent blindness

Trevor J P Hodson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 55

A risk for returned travellers: the “post-antibiotic era”

Subhash C Arya and Nirmala Agarwal

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 55-56

International medical students and migration: the missing dimension in Australian workforce planning?

Dawn E DeWitt and William R Adam

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 56

Book review

Advocating women’s health

Lachlan de Crespigny

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 23

Obituary

Robert Alexander Barter AM, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCPath, FIAC

Toby T Nichols and Ian Hammond

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 51 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 47